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Welcome To TommorowLove ™
Fall in love with the future. Fall in love with TomorrowLove™.
As technology develops further toward virtual realities, TomorrowLove™ explores and examines love, sex, and relationships of the near-future. How will technology play a role in our future relationships? Will we recognize love?
TomorrowLove™ has been described as ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ meets ‘Black Mirror’.
In a series of fifteen playlets (as opposed to a series of scenes in most plays), playwright Rosamund Small explores the impact technology may have on love in the near-future. The University of Waterloo will be producing 7 of the 15 playlets in this performance.
Rosamund states that the play
is about love and set in many different versions in the very near future, where one piece of amazing technology exists. It’s about exploring different relationships and how this one thing activates change in the way that two people relate to each other. Sometimes it ends up bringing people closer together and sometimes it pushes them further apart.
In the text, characters are not ascribed gender or race; therefore, the director can cast the production free of these restrictions. TomorrowLove™ is a truly contemporary play that allows us to meditate on the possibilities and dangers technology introduces into love and relationships in the twenty-first century.
Just Like a Movie
A couple waiting to view the memories of the one who is dying.
Perfect
A couple enters virtual reality to engage in their fantasies.
Reeseman
Two old friends meet up. One of them has had alterations to have a successful face.
I Wrote You This Letter
A person who is in love with their best friend decides to get their memories erased so they can move on.
Eternal Space Logic
A couple bickering over buying a never-ending fridge.
Til Skype Do Us Part
An app that allows a married couple to communicate even though one of them has passed away.
Eight Legs, Two Hearts
A couple in therapy discussing a game where anything is possible.
About The Playwright: Rosamund Small
Rosamund Small is the Dora-Award winning playwright of Sisters (Soulpepper, 2018), TomorrowLove™ , Vitals (Outside The March, 2016, 2014), and other theatre works including documentary, solo show, and large-scale immersive projects. She is interested in bringing humour, joy, and excitement to stories that explore both the darkest and brightest moments in life.
In addition to playwriting, Rosamund is story coordinator of Workin' Moms Season 3 on CBC, and also collaborates on the dance-narrative work with Robert Binet and the National Ballet of Canada.
Photo courtesy of Rosamund Small
Original Production
The original production of TomorrowLove ™ was produced by Outside the March, an immersive theatre company located in Toronto, Ontario. Directed and developed by Mitchell Cushman and staged in a former funeral home, the text was staged in a unique and intricately complex immersive “choose your own adventure” style. This production engaged with audiences in a meaningful way by offering them the opportunity to return repeatedly to potentially experience two different actors perform each playlet, and the opportunity to see any number of new playlets.